Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-05-06

| Adrian; quartermaster. john w. Barry,
Jack son.
About the largest body of hard ore ever
discov red in Michigan is now being I'M
covered in what is known rs the old Carr
IN ne property, one mile east OF the Pitts
burgh a Lake Superior iron company's
! location on the Cascade range, not far
| from Negaunee The ore Is red specular,
yielding seventy-five per cent metallic
iron. The vein proper is fifty feet wide
with promising ground TO the width OF
800 feet adjoining.
A little son of James Hough of Tecumseh
was engaged in playing horse with two
companions with himself engaged as
equine. To make the Improvisation per-
feet they fed him bran and corn and after
wards gave him a drink OF water from an
old tin can. The little fellow was seized
with spasms some little time after and
died the same night. The doctors think
he was poisoned by copperas being in the
can he drank from.
The Hon. Lewis +. y. Wilson of Cod
water, died April 20 or dropsy He studied
law with the late Lieut.-Gov. George A
Coe, and began practice in Coldwater in
! 1913. In the spring OF 1851 he was elected
justice of the peace, and in 1854 was elected
state senator. In 1870 he was elected at
torney for Branch county. He was a
brilliant orator and an abe lawyer He
came TO Coldwater in 1875 and was aged
50 years at the time of his death.
horrible accident occurre on an ore
train between Calumet and Lake Linden
April -. A party of young people were
going to Calumet 10 an oddfellows hall.
Miss Hoar and Mis-, McDona d highly re-
spected young ladies, the latter a school
teacher, were killed. The coupling be
tween the cars broke, precipitating both
on to the track. Nj Hoar was completely
decapitated, and Miss Mcdonald had both
legs crushed and amputated. Death is in
evitable.
| The examination OF Clark II. Thomas Of
Coldwater, charged with conspiracy to
murder, is taking a somewhat startling
turn. Walter c. Cole who had pre- vious
y sworn that he barganed with Thomas
for S2OOto kill old man Davis and that they
had talked the matter over on different oc
casions, now swears that he never on any
occasion had any talk with Thomas rela-
tive to the matter. Cole has been arrested
for perjury and locked up. Public sym
patty has now turned completely in
Thomas favor, and it will go hard with
those who have conspired against him.
Last August a person giving his name
as g. f.. Hamilton and representing him
self a prominent lawyer OF Niles and OF
considerable wealth, which he was invest.
ing in good securities when offered, came
Tgh ehtt oil 10 for -,
Bedford Calhoun county, into whose
favor he ingratiated himself He eventu-
ally succeeded in getting 500 from For
shu upon a New York draft, which subse-
quently Iroved bogus. 1t soon tran pired
that G.. f.. Hamilton was a smooth-tongued
crook named James White. The Officers
kept a close watch on the fellow and final
ly arrested him in Jackson a few days ago.
lie now languishes in Jail.
Last winter Adam Lyman lost hay.
stack by fire, and short time afterward
his barn burned and his house was on fire at
different times, but was discovered in time
20 extinguish it. Until recently the cause
was a mystery, but il has been found TO be
two girls. Mary and Matilda Johnson. one
- and the other 10 years old. who live
with Mrs. Hyman's father. Mr.. Garbutt,
one Of them part of the time at Mr.. Hy-
mans. They made a confession 10 Mrs.
Garbutt that they set the fires, thinking
that if they could burn them out they
would go To town to live, a they were
tired Of country life. The girls have been
held for trial in the circuit court-.SaHiac
! JegcrsoH'an.
Lyman Darling, alias Hogan. from
Grand Rapids and John Mahoney from
Detroit. escaped from the reform school
the other night by gaining the roo
through the scutte and thence the ground
on some scatfolding erected in making
some repairs. They then undertook to
| burglarize grocery, but were frightened
off. Supt. Cover has turned them over
20 the authorities and they will be tried
in the circuit court for burglary. Mahoney
was sent from Detroit in 1888. He was
| granted leave Of absence a year ago and
was returned last month for completely in
a freight car rol berry. Darling was SEN
fenced from Grand Rapids in February
! 1855, for larceny. his parents falsely swear
ing that he was under u 20 save him from
/ Ionia. He was drunk when brought TO
| the school.
Thomas johnson az Coldwater went into
Gordoniers grocery the other night as
they were closing up, and handed Mrs
! Gordonier note asking her To read it.
Mr.. Gordonier forbade her when Johnson
shot him in the abdomen Mrs. Gorlonier
ran. followed 10y two shots, which prazed
but did not hurt her. John on then went
up stairs and threw Mary Jane johnson,
aged about Ii, down stairs then lay across
a bed and fired bullet into his own fore
! head. He live1 but short time. Cor
| donier cannot recover. Johnson was
formerly in the grocery business in Cold
water, but has lived in Knoxville, Tenn i,
form evera' years. Mrs. Gordonier was
once his wife and he came back week
ago with tie avowed purpose of making
trouble. He had been sitting in the hotel
very nervously long time. watching for
a chance TO do this terrible work. Jealousy
caused It,.
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